Several years ago I acquired an Ishapore Enfield that had been chopped up. The barrel was shortened and the wood poorly modified. I couldn't hit squat with it due to the shortened sight radius and old eyes. I had a gunsmith make a scout scope mount, and attached a Nikon long eye relief scope. The best I could get was 1-1/4" group at 100 yards with handloads or factory ammunition.
Not satisfied I recently took it to a different gunsmith to have the barrel threaded for a muzzle device. The idea is to choose the best grouping ammunition, and tune the barrel harmonics, by the position of the device to improve consistency. So far I've not been able to test this out.
The rifle was disassembled to thread the barrel, as was the scope base. As it turns out, the base was not well made. It uses the pin in the original rear sight and can move horizontally at least 0.015 side to side. It can move far enough to be beyond scope zero adjustment. A redesign is in order.
I probably could buy a scout rifle for less money than this will eventually cost. But I'm enjoying the project.
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